Nibaran Chandra Ghosh And ANR. v. The State Of West Bengal And ORS.

Item No.10 16.05.2025 Court. No. 19 GB W.P.A. 16666 of 2024 Nibaran Chandra Ghosh & Anr.

Vs.

The State of West Bengal & Ors.

Mr. Anindya Sundar Das, Mr. Shaunak Ghosh, Ms. Paramita Mondal ... for the Petitioners.

Mr. Chandi Charan De, Mr. Anirban Sarkar, Ms. Reshma Chatterjee ... for the State.

1. The affidavit-of-service as filed today is taken on record.

2. The writ petitioners and the respondent State and its functionaries are represented by their learned advocates.

3. By filing the instant writ petition the writ petitioners have prayed for issuance of appropriate writ/writs against the respondent authorities, more specifically against the respondent no.3 for consideration of their representation dated 22.03.2021 as have been annexed at page nos.41 to 45 of the instant writ petition.

4. In course of hearing, learned advocate appearing on behalf of the writ petitioners at the very outset draws attention of this Court to the copy of the said representation dated 22.03.2021 at page nos.41 to 45 of the instant writ petition. It is submitted that under cover of the said letter as issued by the learned advocate for the writ petitioners, the writ petitioners

have prayed for grant of compensation on account of wrongful acquisition and possession of the land, particular of which has been mentioned in the said representation by the respondent authorities.

5. It is submitted further that for the reason best known to the respondent authorities, the respondent authorities, more specifically the respondent no.3 practically sat tight over the matter and did nothing.

6. The learned advocate appearing on behalf of the respondent State in his usual fairness submits before this Court that the respondent no.3 may be directed to consider such representation in accordance with law.

7. On careful consideration of the entire materials as placed before this Court and after hearing the learned advocates for the contending parties, this Court while disposing the instant writ petition directs the respondent no.3 to consider the representation of the writ petitioners dated 22.03.2021 and after giving an opportunity of hearing to the writ petitioners and/or their authorized representative shall pass a reasoned order on such representation and shall communicate the said reasoned order to the writ petitioners forthwith preferably by email, if the mail details of the writ petitioners are provided to him at the time of hearing.

8. The entire exercise as indicated in the foregoing paragraphs is to be completed within 60 working days from the date of communication of the server copy of this order.

9. Liberty is given to the learned advocate on record for the writ petitioners to communicate the server copy of this order to the respondent no.3 for his immediate compliance.

10. The respondent no.3 is directed to act on the server copy of this order.

11. With the aforementioned observations the writ petition being WPA 16666 of 2024 is disposed of.

12. Urgent Photostat certified copy of this order, if applied for, be given to the parties upon compliance of all necessary formalities.

(Partha Sarathi Sen, J.)